282–26

Conversation No. 282-26

Date: October 20, 1971
Time: 4:23 pm - 5:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Richard A. Moore.

Greetings

Supreme Court appointments
-Leaks
-White House staff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
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-Mildred L. Lillie
-John N. Mitchell
-Women candidates
-Qualifications
-Public reaction
-Lewis F. Powell
-Age
-Qualifications
-Southern background
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Qualifications
-Law background
-Senate
-Age


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-Supreme Court Justices
-Finances
-William O. Douglas
-Outside income
-Baker
-Age
-Possible tenure
-Contrasted with Potter Stewart
-William H. Mulligan
-Background qualifications
-New York
-Dean of Fordham Law School
-ABA
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-Powell
-ABA's reaction
-Mulligan
-ABA
-Mulligan
-Powell
-Moore's conversation with Mitchell
-Analysis of candidates
-Herschel H. Friday
-Lillie
-Tennessee
-Baker
-Civil rights
-Congressional approval
-ABA
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-Role in appointment process
-Powell
-Ziegler
-Powell
-Mulligan
-Reaction by people in New York
-Fordham Law School
-Experience
-Mitchell
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Qualifications
-Powell
-Powell
-Baker
-William French Smith
-Qualifications
-Experience
-John M. Harlan
-Corporate law
-California
-Wife
-Kansas City, 1968
-Powell and Smith
-William H. Rehnquist
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-Qualifications
-Possible ABA reaction
-Department of Justice position
-Stanford Law School
-Robert H. Jackson
-Department of Justice position
-ABA
-Mitchell’s view
-John W. Dean, III
-Arizona
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Stanford
-Smith
-Harvard
-Rehnquist

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:21 pm and 4:44
pm.

[Conversation No. 282-26A]

[See Conversation No. 12-12]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court appointments
-Rehnquist
-Age
-Jackson
-Department of Justice position
-Compared with Byron R. (\"Whizzer\") White

The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 4:44 pm and 4:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-26B]

[See Conversation No. 12-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Powell
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-Age
-Length of term
-Warren E. Burger
-Leaks
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Previous mistakes
-Rehnquist
-Qualifications of candidates
-New Jersey
-Illinois
-Mulligan
-Smith, Rehnquist
-Baker
-Leonard Garment
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Mulligan
-Experience
-William J. Brennan, Douglas
-Powell and Baker
-South
-J. Strom Thurmond
-Virginia, Tennessee
-Busing issue
-Powell
-Baker
-Rehnquist
-Smith
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Powell
-Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lillie
-Lillie
-Earl Adams’ opinion
-Possible appointment scenario
-Powell
-Baker
-Women
-The President's instructions to Mitchell
-Sylvia Bacon
-Circuit Court
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-Law schools
-Television announcement
-Advantages compared with press conference
-Contents of announcement
-Qualifications of appointments
-The President's philosophy
-Powell
-Rehnquist
-Jackson
-Jackson
-Previous letter to the President
-David Capers [sp?]
-Career
-Nuremberg trials
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Background

Newsday articles
-Moore’s view
-Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo
-Possible legal action
-Moore’s view
-Time magazine
-Robert G. (\"Bobby\") Baker
-The President's finances
-Possible Ehrlichman statement
-Law firm
-Fisher Island stocks
-Sale
-Moore
-Sale
-Ehrlichman
-Rebozo


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-The President's finances
-Real estate

The President's schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:05 pm.

Items for the President's signature
Forthcoming White House event
-Guest list
-Frank Shakespeare
-Donald M. Kendall

Butterfield left at 5:07 pm.

Newsday articles
-Rebozo

Vietnam
-Announcement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-POW issue
-Possible bombing
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] summit
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Mary McGrory’s article
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers

Supreme Court nominees
-Robert C. Byrd
-Democrats
-Lillie
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-Edmund G. (\"Pat\") Brown
-Smith
-Academic background

Moore left at 5:16 pm.